Dude, of course today’s library thing is your library. It’s a fantastic place where you get to grab stuff and bring it home. FREE. You just need to bring it back. How many other places let you do that? McDonald’s? Starbucks? Your cable company? Nope. The library gives you stuff free. Cool. Go. Visit. Check out stuff. Tell your friends. And treat our DVDs nicely please.

Yes, there is the Librarian Action Figure. It's based on real-life librarian and authorNancy Pearl (you can hear her on NPR). And she's showing you this cake has coffee and instant espresso. It's caffeinated and good.

The Baking Thing:

A Bundt. What else would I make?! This is a DELICIOUS bundt. The crumb is awesome. It's from Sarabeth's Bakery: From my hands to yours - a lovely new cookbook by Sarabeth Levine. This is the first item I've made and it rocks. Can't wait to try some more recipes...and if you want to make some, keep reading for a chance!

This has coffee and espresso in the batter and glaze. But it isn't overpowering...just a great cake that is perfect with, you guessed it, a cup of coffee or tea.

Look at that lovely crumb!

The Giveaway Thing:

Day #1: I'm giving away a brand new copy of Sarabeth's Bakery: From my hands to yours cookbook!
To enter, just leave a comment on this post. If your email isn’t associated with your Blogger account, please be sure to leave your email in the message.
Note: This giveaway is limited to United States mailing addresses.
Deadline: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at midnight, Pacific Daylight Time
Disclosure: This giveaway and shipping is paid for by me. *** Updated: Contest is closed. Congrats to Ann (entry #95) ***Recipe:

Glaze: (This is different from the cookbook. Check page 117 of the cookbook for Sarabeth's version. She heats the glaze and uses brewed coffee and espresso powder)
1 teaspoon instant espresso
1 Tablespoon boiling water
1 Tablespoon milk (I used soy milk because I had that on hand)
2 cups powdered sugar

Cake:
1. Prep bundt pan. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix hot coffee and espresso powder to dissolve. Let cool.
3. Sift together dry ingredients (flour, powder, salt) in a bowl.
4. Beat butter in mixer with paddle attachment at high speed until smooth (1 minute or so). Gradually add in sugar. Add vanilla. Beat until light in color.
5. Add the eggs yolks one at a time, blending in each one before adding the next.
6. On low speed, alternate adding 1/3 of the flour mix and 1/2 of the coffee mix, starting and ending with the flour. Beat until combined, but don't overbeat.
7. In a separate bowl, whip egg whites to soft peaks.
8. Fold some of the egg whites into the batter to lighten it, then carefully fold the rest of the egg whites into the batter.
9. Pour batter into Bundt pan. Smooth out the top and place in the oven.
10. Bake for 55 to 60 minutes, depending on your oven. A cake tester should come out clean. Cool on a wire rack for 15 minutes, then invert onto a cooling rack. Make sure the Bundt is cool before glazing it.

Glaze:
1. In a bowl, dissolve instant espresso in boiling water. Add milk. With a whisk, gradually add the powdered sugar. The consistency should be pourable...add some powdered sugar (to thicken) or milk (to thin) if necessary.
2. Pour over cooled Bundt cake. Let sit for a few minutes before cutting.

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comments:

This looks amazing...I will be sure to make this in a couple of days. This week I bake every day for the office, since our engineers are out of town at our industry's big convention (National Association of Broadcasters). Why should they have all the fun, just because they're in Vegas, right? So we've made our own tradition - I bake every day, and we do a potluck at some point in the week. Usually about 3 out of 5 days are Bundt cakes of some kind so this is perfect. Thanks!

Am I seriously the first person to comment on this amazing bundt cake?! Coffee flavoured cake is always right up my street and there's nothing better than the beautiful perfection of a bundt. It looks scrumptious and I can't wait to try it!

This cake looks delicious. I love Nancy Pearl's NPR book reviews but the list of books that I don't have time to read, alas, grows ever longer. Happy NLW to all. I love my local library and interlibrary loan is a gift from the gods!

Espresso and cake, wow! Doesn't get much better, I can't wait to try it. The library is one of our favorite places, my children grew up knowing all the "lovely library ladies", yes that is what they called them.This looks like a great book if the cover is any indication ;)

My son has questioned coffee cakes and the fact that they don't taste like coffee. This bundt is just the thing he's been craving! Thank You for sharing the recipe...I'm going to try it out NOW and it should be ready to eat when the school bus pulls up. I'm always looking for new recipes and often check out cookbooks from the library...it is sadly an underused resource. I'll have to put in a purchase request for "Sarabeth's Bakery: From my hands to yours" next time I'm there.

I love trying out new bundts and this one sounds perfect to bring in for the teachers at work. After teaching for 18 years at the same school, I decided to become the library teacher this year. The library had not been used for the past few years (since they cut the librarian position) so it was exciting to get it back up and running. Weekends and nights you can find me baking or checking out what's new on tastespotting and foodgawker. Keep up the great blog! p.s. You will appreciate this...my niece turned 5 this weekend and was sooo excited because she got to go the the library to get her OWN library card!! Too cute! :)vnhromadka@netzero.netThanks!

Hi! I just found this blog a few weeks ago (via The Kitchn) but this is my first time commenting. I'm so excited because I love baking, too, and I'm a UCLA MLIS ('11) student! I can't wait to try your bundt recipes!

You had me at coffee!! LOVE ALL SWEETS THAT HAVE COFFEE! I was actually on foodgawker looking for a coffee dessert to make for the adults at my little daughter's birthday party this week. I will make this cake for them and let you know how it goes over. I wish I could instantly poof this cake into existence just for myself right now, never mind that it's past midnight and time for bed! Yum, yum, yummy!!

Espresso? Bundt cake? Library week? Be still my heart! I want a piece of this badly, right now. We're headed to the library this week for my toddler's playtime and more chapter books for my bookaholic daughter. I love my library!

Yum . . . I'm so going to make this bundt. My daughter got her first library card a few weeks ago and was so excited. We moved to a new town and our first outings have been to get books and to go to story time. Hooray for libraries and librarians :)

Oh yum, this book is on my Amazon wish list. If only I didn't have so many other wonderful bakery cookbooks still left to bake through! There seems to be a huge wave of bakery cookbooks hitting the shelves lately.

I would love to win the cookbook. I will make these as muffins, so as to not have to use 2 whole sticks of butter. I know it all adds up the same but using THAT much butter in one recipe is hard for me to do.